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The truth about digital offshoring

Start Up Blog

BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are the buzz word in business for good reason. The internet has made it possible to have a global work force from launch date, and the same cost advantages that multinationals have had since they started exporting labour to China and other parts of Asia since the 1960’s.

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London Calling

Startup Lessons Learned

His method advocates the creation of rapid prototypes designed to test market assumptions, and uses customer feedback to evolve them much faster than via more traditional product development practices. Wednesday, January 11- Dublin, Ireland I’ll be facilitating in the Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) program.

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software development

murkygrey.com

The big guys have been doing it for years and recently, smaller and smaller startups are incorporating offshore development into their plans. As a development manager I have, over the years, utilized development teams in India, China and Russia.

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35 Leading Women Entrepreneurs Paving The Way For Success

Designmantic Blog

She is recognized as a design and innovation leader in high-impact and philanthropy product development. She initially started out as professional circus juggler in Russia after dropping out of school but soon turned to acting and video-making when she discovered YouTube. Website: talentculture.com. Aliza Sherman.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2012 Edition

VC Cafe

Redwood City, California’s Shutterfly, a leading internet-based social expression and personal publishing service, has acquired Israel’s Photoccino , a developer of groundbreaking technologies for photo ranking, analysis and organization. SHUTTERFLY ACQUIRES ISRAELI PHOTO SOFTWARE COMPANY PHOTOCCINO. Global sales in 2011 were $2.76

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Altor Networks was founded in 2007 by security and networking experts from Israel’s Internet security giant Check Point. Virtualization and cloud computing products allow multiple users to run on a single physical host, with each virtual machine sharing the resources of that hardware across multiple environments.